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White-haired   /waɪt-hɛrd/   Listen
White-haired

adjective
1.
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.  Synonyms: gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary.  "Nodded his hoary head"
2.
Favorite.  Synonyms: blue-eyed, fair-haired.






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"White-haired" Quotes from Famous Books



... a fine looking, white-haired woman, who proved to be her mother. The older woman carried herself with a regal dignity that seemed quite remarkable in a place of such ...
— The Lost Continent • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... no immediate answer; for it was here that the white-haired man raised his hand to his ear; and the event was exactly as he ...
— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung

... each other's society for a whole winter in Paris. After having lost sight of each other, as generally happens in such cases, after leaving college, the two friends met again one night, long years after, already old and white-haired, the one ...
— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant

... chance to be an alumnus of Cornell you may recall Professor Arthur Maxon, a quiet, slender, white-haired gentleman, who for several years was an assistant professor in one of the departments of natural science. Wealthy by inheritance, he had chosen the field of education for his life work solely from a desire to be of some ...
— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... white-haired man had pushed up to the wagon; he polished his spectacles on his coat-tail, then put them on his nose, and focused them on Barney. Those green spectacles seemed to the boy to have a solemnly accusing expression on their broad and sombre ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock


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